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Beyond Belief

BBC

Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world

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Listen to Beyond Belief, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by BBC. Stream 361 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Inked

Giles Fraser gets under the skin of the religious significance of tattoos. We hear from Wassim Rassouk - the owner of the oldest tattoo busi...

27:40May 5, 2026

War and Peace

Giles Fraser and the panel discuss religious views on military action and how conflict is justified theologically across different faiths an...

27:35Apr 30, 2026

Consciousness

Giles Fraser explores Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s brain hemisphere theory, which argues that the left and right hemispheres of the brain perceive...

27:23Oct 21, 2025

Prison Conversions

In this episode of Beyond Belief, Giles Fraser explores the deeply personal and often transformative phenomenon of religious conversion in p...

27:25Oct 21, 2025

Faith versus Fear

Giles Fraser delves into the moral and theological tensions surrounding immigration, asking whether Christian faith leads to exclusion or ra...

27:30Sep 23, 2025

Cultural Religiosity

Giles Fraser meets columnist Giles Coren, who was raised in the Jewish tradition, became an atheist and who now feels at home in a Christian...

27:29Apr 22, 2025

Claiming Christianity

Giles Fraser meets the Revd Canon Fr Phil Harris, of the Anglican Church in North America, to discuss defending Britain’s Christian heritage...

27:14Apr 15, 2025

Faithful Food

We hear from the volunteers serving an average of 1,500 meals a day at the Gurdwara Siri Guru Singh Sabha in Hounslow and explore the signif...

27:20Apr 8, 2025

Mixed Blessings

Giles Fraser and guests hear from novelist and opinion writer Lisa Solod on her negative experience of marrying outside of her Jewish faith,...

27:42Apr 1, 2025

Pharisees: a byword for hypocrisy?

The word hypocrite gets used with such regularity – and Jesus himself had form using the term. How did the Pharisees became a byword for hyp...

27:33Jan 14, 2025

Divine Comedy

Faith based comedy is growing in popularity. Why is religion such a good source for jokes? Is God funny? And, is there anywhere with religio...

27:20Jan 7, 2025

The Religion of Detection

Giles Fraser and guests hear from authors of detective fiction, Kate Charles and Martin Edwards, on the subtle ways they weave faith into th...

27:29Dec 31, 2024

Blue Christmas

Mona Siddiqui and guests hear from Rev Denzil Larbi. He reflects on his cousin, Elianne Andam, who was 15 when she was fatally stabbed at a...

27:33Dec 24, 2024

Do our pets go to heaven?

The Rev Tara Hellings, an Anglican vicar, outlines her experiences of conducting funerals at a Pet Crematorium in Winchfield, and Nurul Ain...

27:19Dec 17, 2024

Armour of God

Imam Asim Hafiz, the first Muslim chaplain to the British Armed Forces and an Islamic advisor for the Ministry of Defence, who has been work...

27:41Dec 12, 2024

Religious Freedom

Giles Fraser meets Stephen Schneck, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, to explore the impact of globalisation...

27:39Dec 5, 2024

The Gift of the Garden

In her poem 'God's Garden', Dorothy Frances Gurney writes: 'One is nearer God’s heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.’ Join Giles F...

27:49Aug 20, 2024

Religion in the therapy room

Giles Fraser explores the parallels and overlaps between spirituality/religion and psychotherapy. Professor Josh Cohen is a psychotherapist,...

27:36Aug 13, 2024

A Suffering God

Giles Fraser hears about the revolutionary ideas of late theologian Jürgen Moltmann, whose work challenged and transformed Christian ideas o...

27:28Aug 6, 2024

Wine of the Gods

Giles Fraser explores the place of wine in some religious traditions, as the blood of Christ, the nectar of the Greek Gods or Persian poets,...

27:50Jul 30, 2024

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